A sapphire producing company GT Advanced Technologies has announced it will be cutting 890 jobs and will close its business center in Salam, Massachusetts. Apple had contracted the company to provide the sapphire display to Apple Watch. The company reported that it may land in legal conflicts with Apple as well. The company started to face problems when they began to pursue bankruptcy protection.

Moreover reporting on the reason to cutoff the jobs, the company said that it is facing the loss of $1 million every day. They suggested that it is very important for them to stop all these losses so that they can focus on their main business which was mainly to sell things like sapphire furnaces etc. Moreover they also added that there are many grounds on which they can launch legal complaints against Apple regarding the business relationship they had with each other.

The company also told that to pursue those claims is not among their top priorities. They will only take steps to terminate most legal agreements they made with Apple earlier. Responding to their approach, Apple has already claimed that they have strong commitments to hold GT to agreement otherwise it will result in putting Arizona jobs on risk. Apple made agreements with them to expand business in the state.

Rivals like Rubicon Technology responded to the issue with positive attitude. On NASDAQ the company is rising with 23% and its currently trading a share at $4.93. Nevertheless analysts decipher this rise just a mere market reaction of GT pursuing for bankruptcy.

Nevertheless GT will not only cut the jobs in Arizona but also wrap up its business center in Salam, Massachusetts to overcome the loss. The company is all set to initiate the process for its revival and estimated that they will complete the task by the end of this year.

Baby Boomers remember those sparkling ads in comic books and magazines showcasing the amazing Sea Monkeys. The ads depicted funny anthropomorphic pink skinned creatures swimming about happily. All a kid needed was to add water and watch the miracle of the Sea Monkeys emerge from their eggs and start swimming about.

Well, the fun lasted until the creatures emerged and it was discovered that the Sea Monkeys were nothing more than common brine shrimp.

Well Sea Monkeys have made the news again this time as a possible solution to oceanic sustenance for the creatures of the sea. No, they’re not going to be used as food but the way the creature move, wiggling about and such, they’re being considered to be able to mix the oceans’ upper layers like waves and wind do. This could deliver salt, heat, and nutrients to the upper layers of the waters.

The churning of the oceans via waves and winds, tides and such are imperative for mixing the waters of the surface. Not only for oceans but for other bodies of water. This stirring about is what living creatures in the waters depend on. The way Sea Monkeys behave is like many other marine creatures. They swim to the top of the waters and back down again and again eating and doing whatever they need to do and as such stir the waters for the benefit of all. Scientists expect that billions of these Sea Monkeys cause enough of a swirl to be a valuable fluid dynamic. Researchers at Caltech decided to test this and coming to the fore are Monica Wilhelmus and John Dabiri.

Using an unique technique of blue and green lasers to get thousands of the Sea Monkeys to migrate from the bottom of a 1.2 meter deep tank, much like house cats who are attracted to those red pen laser lights. Focusing the lasers to the center of the tank and using silver coated microspheres that they used a red laser to illuminate the researchers set out to see the way the swirls and eddies were formed by the moving shrimp. The experiment was a success.

This along with previous studies show that the creatures like brine shrimp, phytoplankton and others that absorb massive amounts of energy from the sun and other sources use only a small percentage of that energy to keep the waters stirred up. The results of the study can be seen in Physics of Fluids.

Apple is using a new higher encryption technology for protection the personal data of its users and the National Security Agency and the nation’s law enforcement agencies have concern that the smart phone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of gadget that will interrupt their investigative capabilities.

The latest IPhone6 encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a difficult numerical algorithm that uses a code generated by, and distinctive to, the phone’s user and that Apple says it will not get from anyone.

The consequence, the corporation is basically saying, is that if a court order demanding that the materials of an iPhone 6 be given to intelligence agencies or law enforcement, it will turn over garbage, along with a note saying that it is impossible to crack the phone’s emails, contacts and photos so get the code from the phone’s owner.

Criminals will figure this out, and maybe the terrorist will use this phone to protect their data, in this case it is very difficult to get any information from this phone.

On the other side, the company said that Apple has never worked with any government organization from any state to make a ‘back door’ in any of our inventions or services and that is why we have also never permitted any government access to our servers and in the future we will never desire to do that because we are different from our opponents; Apple cannot spread your pass code and therefore cannot entrance this data So it’s not theoretically possible for us to react to government warrants for the taking out of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8.”

No doubt this is not the final news we will hear on this dispute because recently, Google announced that the company is preparing to allow an encryption system by default in the next version of Android.

Esterline Technologies Corporation (ESL: Quote), a known engineering products maker for defense and aerospace customers, reported last Thursday that their overall profit rises for the year’s third quarter. Revenues significantly increased and expenses greatly dropped. However, overall earnings for the year’s quarter estimates were missed, while revenues basically trumped expectations.

Bellevue, Esterline’s Washington-based profit statistics for the year’s third-quarter inched up a few up to $38.9 million valued at $1.19 per share while previous stats of last year $38.2 million valued at $1.20 per share. Overall profit rises were also noticed at adjusted earnings from the company’s current continuing operations during the quarter of this year were recorded at $44.9 million with a value of Esterline $1.38 per share. The polled Thomson Reuters analysts also reported that in the quarter of this year the company’s overall average expected earnings will be $1.40 per share. The Analysts typically exclude other special items in their estimates.

Overall net sales of the company the year’s quarter increased to 11.1%, amounting to $531.1 million, significantly higher from last year’s $478.1 million. Analysts had agreed that revenue estimate for this year’s quarter is $516.57 million. The company’s revenue record grew across all the three segments. The gross margin of the company for the year’s third quarter decreased to 34.4%, lower than last year’s 37.4%. SG&A overall expense, decreased to 17.9% from last year’s 21.3%. New orders highly affected overall profit rises in the year’s third quarter because it increased to 15.4%, amounting to $534.4.